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Vika Pechersky is the Submissions Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds an MTS degree from Loyola University Maryland. She lives with her husband and three kids in the Washington DC area.
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Vika Pechersky is the Submissions Editor at Mere Orthodoxy. She holds an MTS degree from Loyola University Maryland. She lives with her husband and three kids in the Washington DC area.
Vika PecherskyBook ReviewsFormation
'The Brothers Karamazov' shows a moment in which two people encounter each other not as objects of conquest but as beloved subjects and common persons.
Vika PecherskyFeaturedJournalJournal 2
The question I dislike the most is, “Where are you from?” My Eastern-European accent usually gives away the fact that I am not, should I say, local. Now that I live on the East Coast, I am often tempted to […]
Vika PecherskyBook ReviewsJournal 6Journal
The growing acceptance of euthanasia in the west would come as no surprise to Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Vika PecherskyCurrent PoliticsEvangelism
The experience of societal tension and brief religious openness in post-Soviet Russia should have a chastening effect on those hailing the 'vibe shift.'
Vika PecherskyBiblePhilosophy
Philippians provides an interesting window into how Paul imagines the self—and makes for a good conversation partner with modern ideas around the self.
Vika PecherskyFeaturedEvangelicalism
“What is culture in itself except the attempt of man to be man and thus to hold the good gift of his humanity in honor and to put it to work?” —Karl Barth In 1957, Karl Barth delivered his lecture […]
Vika PecherskyFeatured
Interview with Rebekah Eklund for Mere Orthodoxy “Whence then doth He begin? and what kind of foundations of His new polity doth He lay for us? Let us hearken with strict attention unto what is said. For though it was […]
Vika PecherskyFeaturedCulture War
“My wish is that this book might help Christians rediscover that their most important social task is nothing less than to be a community capable of hearing the story of God we find in the scripture and living in a […]
Vika PecherskyFeaturedCurrent Politics
Nihilism is at our door: whence comes this most gruesome of all guests to us? —Friedrich Nietzsche[1] If nihilism devalues even the highest of values, we can state with a fair amount of certainty that we are living in it […]
Vika PecherskyBibleFeatured
Paul's portrayal of the Gospel in Colossians includes both individual and cosmic restoration and is a helpful corrective for certain evangelical tendencies.
Vika PecherskyPoliticsFeaturedCulture
Alexander Solzhenitsyn opens his Harvard commencement address with a statement that is characteristically Russian, something Dostoyevsky would probably say — “The truth is seldom pleasant; it is invariably bitter.”
